Harsh J created HDFS-4509:
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             Summary: Provide a way to ask Balancer to exclude certain 
DataNodes in its computation and/or work.
                 Key: HDFS-4509
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4509
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: balancer
            Reporter: Harsh J
            Priority: Minor


This comes particularly useful in clusters that have a split between DNs used 
for regular purpose and DNs used for HBase RSes specifically. By asking the 
balancer to exclude the DNs that RSes run on, its possible to avoid impacting 
HBase's local reads performance, and the balancing of these nodes can be 
deferred to a later time.

An alternate, and perhaps simpler approach would be to make the Balancer 
file-aware and ask it to skip a specific directory's file's blocks (i.e. that 
of /hbase for example).

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